The Archdiocese of Harare is a particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in Zimbabwe. A particular church is any of the individual constituent ecclesial communities in full communion with Rome that are part of the Catholic Church as a whole. In Canon Law terms, a particular Church is an ecclesiastical community headed by a bishop or someone recognised as the equivalent of a bishop. The archdiocese of Harare is headed by archbishop Robert Christopher Ndlovu. Its ecclesiastic territory includes the city of Harare, and parts of the provinces of Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Mashonaland West. This territory covers the following districts: Mazowe, Bindura, Shamva, Murehwa, Rushinga (south of the Mazowe river), Mudzi, Mutoko, Kadoma, Chegutu, Harare, Goromonzi, Seke, Marondera, Charter, Wedza.
The archdiocese is the metropolitan see for the Ecclesiastical Province of Harare, which covers northeastern Zimbabwe. The mother church of the archdiocese is the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Harare. The archdiocese has 68 diocesan priests; and there are 55 Jesuit priests, 13 Redemptorist priests, 10 Carmelite Priests, 3 Claritian priests, 3 Spiritan priests, 3 Salesian priests, 5 SVD priests and — franciscan priests working in the archdiocese. The Society of Jesus has 6 religious brothers and the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer has 5. Currently there are over 250 religious sisters who are members of various religious institutes (133 LCBL, 59 Domincan, 26 Maryward, 22 CPS, 5 LCM, 3 Carmelite and others from other congregations). These priests and religious persons serve the archdiocese’s Catholic population of 3,350,000 in 59 Parishes in the Archdiocese of Harare and a number of missions. The are also two monasteries in the archdiocese, one is at Waterfalls, a community of Poor Clare sisters and the other is at Macheke, a benedictine monastery.
The Archdiocese started as a fragment of the original Zambezi Mission which was entrusted to the Society of Jesus by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith on 2nd July 1879. The territory was 750 000 miles2 in extent and embraced the whole of present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe, part of Zaire and Mozambique. The subsequent divisions have been as follows:
| 1893 | Portuguese territory established as a separate jurisdiction. |
| 1927 | Prefecture of Broken Hill (Kabwe, Zambia) erected: this reduced the area of the Zambesi Mission by half.1930 Bulawayo area erected as an Independent Mission: this reduced the area to 108 502 miles2. |
| 1947 | Prefecture of Fort Victoria erected (Gweru Diocese 1-1-55). |
| 1953 | Prefecture of Umtali (Mutare Diocese 15-2-57) and Prefecture of Wankie (Hwange Diocese 1-3-63) erected |
| 1955 | Establishment of Hierarchy – 1st January. Ecclesiastical Province of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) set up comprising:- Metropolitan See: Salisbury (Harare) 63555 km2 Suffragan Sees: Bulawayo 64456 km2 Gwelo (Gweru) 29158 km2 Umtali (Mutare) 32202 km2 Wankie (Hwange) 43427 km2 |
| 1975 10th April | Apostolic Prefecture of Sinoia (Chinhoyi Diocese established 5-1-86) which reduced the area of the Harare (Salisbury) Archdiocese to about 25000 miles2 (64749km2). |
| 1991 | Gokwe Diocese established 17-6-91 is about 26000km2. |
| 1994 10th June | Bulawayo raised to Metropolitan See Suffragan Sees: Gweru Hwange Masvingo This meant that the Metropolitan see of Harare was left with the following suffragan sees: Mutare Chinhoyi Gokwe |